@steel_tide2rh5nc: "Hi all. I have windows vista with IE7. I spend quite a while arrangin
my favourites into my desired order, and then a few days later i
automatically sorted them by name. This happens every so often. Do yo
know how to turn this off since I much prefer sorting my favourites th
way I desire
Thanks alot in advance for your help
Andre
steel_tide"
    @robald: "(cross-post added to Vista General)
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Try the opposite of  P. Di Stolfo's  advice?    <EG>
(A solution for the opposite caseOP wanted more reliable automatic sorting.)
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(web interface search of this newsgroup for
    favorites registry order delete
)
So, with this information I would try using ProcMon (or ideally use
registry auditing) to find out if in fact that Order value is somehow
getting regenerated intermittently.   In that case perhaps you will
have to control its update using the same type of permissions
idea that Paulo suggests,  i.e., prevent the updating of that
Order value unless you specifically want it to be updated.
If you change your Favorites menu frequently that could get
inconvenient, so it would be best to find out why it is changing
automatically.
FWIW I don't have your problem but I'm not using Vista.
In case this is a Vista-only quirk I am cross-posting to Vista General.
Good luck
Robert Aldwinckle
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    @don_04atvarnaudotorg: "Hi,
Still following this?  ;-)
I don't know why this unwanted sorting by name happens, but it's been
happening since at least IE4- maybe even IE3. You could resort to naming
tricks such as:
1weather.yahoo.com or
-weather.yahoo.com or
_weather.yahoo.com
would be listed before mail.yahoo.com
Or create new folders in Favorites to make specific favorites easier to
fine.
Or, after ordering your favorites, run regedit and export this registry key
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOr
der\Favorites]
A right-click> merge of that key would restore your custom order except for
favorites added since you last exported that key.
Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]
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